History VideoGame / Splatoon

* ColorCodedArmies:
** Each team of Inklings can have have different colors, which are chosen before a match begins. The color picked for one team also affects the other team's color by way of ColorContrast. So a pink team will always have teal enemies, and vice versa, with purple and blue being the only team color used more than once, purple against green and yellow and blue against orange and yellow.

'''''Splatoon''''' is an upcoming ThirdPersonShooter, created by {{Creator/Nintendo}} for their WiiU system. Revealed at E3 2014, the demo shows two teams, consisting of the "Good Guys" and the "Bad Guys", that fight for control over maps, accomplished by spraying colored ink across the map, with the team with the most area of the map controlled winning. Oh yeah, and all of the characters are "Inklings", [[ItMakesSenseInContext who can turn into squids and swim in their team's ink to get around the map quicker]].

** Having purple be green's opposing color actually goes a long way in making the game relatively non-violent compared to others in its genre; using green's actual complement color, red, would make matches with that color [[BloodierAndGorier look much less family-friendly]].
** Likewise, brown, black and white will never be used; brown resembles something else less sanitary, black makes it appear that the kids were tarred (which can bring back rather nasty memories for more elderly players), while white has its own decidedly family-unfriendly interpretation.

** Likewise, black and white will never be used; black makes it appear that the kids were tarred (which can bring back rather nasty memories for more elderly players), while white has its own decidedly family-unfriendly interpretation.

* BadassAdorable: The Inklings are colorful squid who shape-shift into prepubescent kids, some of whom are girls with tentacle pigtails.

* GraffitiTown: The setting of the game.

* ColorCodedArmies: Each team of Inklings can have have different colors, which are chosen before a match begins. The color picked for one team also affects the other team's color by way of ColorContrast. So a pink team will always have teal enemies, and vice versa, with purple and blue being the only team color used more than once, purple against green and yellow and blue against orange and yellow.
** Having purple be green's opposing color actually goes a long way in maintaining the game's relatively non-violent (compared to others in its genre); using green's actual complement color, red, would make matches with that color [[BloodierAndGorier look much less family-friendly]].

* BloodlessCarnage: Well, kinda. The inklings seem to be made of ink, so the game is either [[AlienBlood very bloody]], or not at all.
* ClothingDamage: Of a sort. When an inlking is "splattered" by the other team, they collapse into ink and their clothes are seemingly blown off (though they spawn with a fresh set back at the starting point).
* ColorCodedArmies: Each team of Inklings can have have different colors, which are chosen before a match begins. The color picked for one team also affects the other team's color by way of ColorContrast. So a pink team will always have teal enemies, and vice versa, with purple being the only team color used more than once, both against green and yellow.

* PunnyName: The game's title, a play on the terms "platoon" and "splat". And "toon".

* GraffitiTown: setting of the game.

* ExcusePlot: The story of the multiplayer boils down to "You're the good guys, they're the bad guys - splatter the town with your team's color!"

While E3 2014's demo only featured the Turf War multiplayer mode, more modes are confirmed to exist, convering both multiplayer and singleplayer.

* BloodlessCarnage: Well, kinda. The inklings seem to be made of ink, so the game is either very bloody, or not at all.

* FieldPowerEffect: Inklings can swim at high speed through their own color of ink.

'''''Splatoon''''' is an upcoming multiplayer-only ThirdPersonShooter, created by {{Creator/Nintendo}} for their WiiU system. Revealed at E3 2014, two teams, consisting of the "Good Guys" and the "Bad Guys", fight for control over maps, accomplished by spraying colored ink across the map, with the team with the most area of the map controlled winning. Oh yeah, and all of the characters are "Inklings", [[ItMakesSenseInContext who can turn into squids and swim in their team's ink to get around the map quicker]].

* ArtAttacker: Matches are won by the side who sprays their ink on the most surface areas.

* ColorCodedArmies: Each team of Inklings can have have different colors, which are chosen before a match begins. The color picked for one team also affects the other team's color by way of ColorContrast. So if your team's pink, the other team will always be teal, and vice versa.
** The only team color used more than once is purple, which is used against green and yellow.
* CoveredInGunge: The whole point of the game.

* ExcusePlot: The story of the game boils down to "You're the good guys, they're the bad guys - splatter the town with your team's color!"
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Ink guns, ink bazookas, oversized paint rollers, and ink grenades.

* ManaMeter: There is a meter in the top-right corner of the screen that, when filled completely, lets you use a super weapon. The one in the demo was a bazooka that creates a twister of your team's ink, but several others were shown off in the trailer, including a giant paint roller and the aforementioned KillSat.

* SprintShoes: You can quickly swim along ink of your color and resurface elsewhere. Particularly convenient for bypassing fences or sneaking up on nearby enemies.
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: The playable characters turning into squids. Well, squids that turn into humanoids. Squids made of ink.
* WarpWhistle: Of a sort; turning into a squid allows you to super jump to one of you teammates. You could be warping to the back of the enemy's base for easy inking... Or jumping into the wrong end of a firefight.

* ColorCodedArmies: Each team of Inklings can have have different colors, which are chosen before a match begins. The color picked for one team also affects the other team's color. So if your team's pink, the other team will always be teal, and vice versa.

The game was the first of several new [=IPs=] that Nintendo introduced at E3 2014, and has already garnered a significant degree of acclaim. Some reporters argued that it was a more inventive and entertaining shooter than other games of the genre that were at the show - with some going so far as to say that the game could serve as the Wii U's next KillerApp. Fanart also exploded around the internet shortly after the game came out, indicating that general audiences may agree with this sentiment.